Condemning the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, cadres of Communist Party of India (Marxist) distributed pamphlets to the public here on Thursday.
The pamphlets distributed by the CPI (M) cadres said the excise duty being levied on petroleum products should be reduced as it was the prime reason behind inflation of essential commodities, which should be distributed to the public through fair price shops.
Each below poverty line family should be given 35 kg free rice and reasonable quantity of wheat every month through the ration shops.
Online trading that jack up prices of food grains should be banned and prices of life saving drugs controlled.
To make the functioning of official machinery “more efficient,” vacancies in the government departments should be filled up and reservation in private companies implemented, the pamphlets said.
